Wasabi peanuts

[plonq]

These are very good, but they do tend to remind you of the fact that you have sinuses.



I was going to wax poetically about the peanuts, but when I was touching up the picture above, I happened to drag it across to the other monitor and I was floored by the difference between screens.

On my main screen, the colours look just about right. On the second monitor, everything looks too blue. I did some colour correction on the picture and balanced it a bit toward the blue to compensate for the incandescent lights I shot it under, but now I am not sure which monitor is giving me the true picture. How does the picture look on your monitor? Is the background a neutral grey, or is it slightly blue? I'd like to know which of my two screens to trust.

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[pierrekrahn.livejournal.com]

The picture caught my eye before your title.
I would have never guessed those were peanuts.

They almost look like cotton or wool. Maybe a cat toy? Hard to tell without a scale (size, not weight).

[leopanthera.livejournal.com]

On my Mac, the background is slightly reddy-brown.

[pfcottontail.livejournal.com]

They look like rotten limes to me!!

On my S-IPS panel it is gray. On my TN panel it is definitely a tweak of blue, which makes it look a twinge green on the IPS (I put the image halfway across both screens). So maybe the good monitor is just a smidge yellow!

[vichan.livejournal.com]

Grey/off-white on mine.

[cozycabbage.livejournal.com]

"As I was touching up a photo I just happened to take, I noticed something that made me have to post it for all of you to see."

Paint Shop Pro says the background is a fair balance with slightly more red, and less blue. In other words, you should almost have turned the blue up, and the red down (except that high red and low blue kind of 'fits' with our eyes, so it looks more natural). On my monitor, it looks about right to my eyes.

What kind is that second monitor? I find LCDs are highly unreliable when it comes to brightness, while CRTs don't usually have good colour rendering by default.

[frith]

On my laptop's LCD screen, with my glasses off, it seems to be a very light powder blue. (My glasses have a slight yellow tint.)

[gedrean.livejournal.com]

Don't see much blue to it. THere might be a hint here or there but mostly it looks grey.

Yep. Grey.

[atara.livejournal.com]

We have the same monitors... the background looks off-grey on the Dell, and faintly blueish on the Acer.

[kamiten.livejournal.com]

Looks grey to me.

[unciaa.livejournal.com]

Slight reddish tint, here. Very slight.

[elfasi.livejournal.com]

Very slight reddish tint on my colour calibrated Apple LCD. Isn't colour fun!

[fuzzytoedcollie.livejournal.com]

Gray (grey?) on my Toshiba laptop screen.

I was going to do a screen capture, then show you the results of my monitor, but then I though about it a little more....*gaaaaahh*

[kfops.livejournal.com]

On my Samsung CRT the background appears grey with a slight touch of brown.

If you find colour really becoming an issue, you can get a Spyder for about $70 which will calibrate both LCD and CRT monitors. Or you could probably borrow mine, though it is suggested that you recalibrate every month or so.

[cozycabbage.livejournal.com]

Acer? That might explain it. I hear Acer is a terrible brand.

[cozycabbage.livejournal.com]

What I do sometimes is get a white surface on my monitor and calibrate my eyes to what my monitor is displaying. That way I don't have to touch the monitor; I just go by what colour values my paint program is showing.
It would help if you changed the bluish monitor to match your other one, though.